Browse by Label: B-MUSIC

Artist:	VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE
Title:	L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 001CD

2006 domestic US pressing (previously issued by Night & Day in France and Finders Keepers in the UK). "Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson is an inimitable, 45-minute concept LP handcrafted by a bass-driven psychedelic rock group and a heaven-sent 1001 piece orchestral and choral symphony. The album left hip-hop producers alongside progressive rock aficionados crying out for more and more for years to come. This LP was in a league of its very own... or was it? The seldom-sung musical arranger for Melody Nelson, Jean-Claude Vannier, has become one of the most enigmatic names in French-funk; lorded by many as the 'French David Axelrod.' Vannier's name is the lesser-spotted, tell-tale seal of sample-friendly quality when it comes to crate-digging 'en Francais.' And the answers to all the floating mysteries, myths and rumors surrounding the man lay flat between the anonymous gatefold sleeve of an undiscovered conceptual album bizarrely entitled L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches. So here we have it. For collectors and enthusiasts alike looking for that special something, this release contains the extra-special EVERYTHING. Peruse the following genres: psychedelic, classical, soundtracks, jazz, hip-hop, samples, avant-garde, funk. Then place a copy of L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches in each section. Domestic version of Vannier CD includes two bonus tracks and a bonus video of live footage taken from an on-set performance during an Yves Saint Lauren fashion show in 1971!"

Artist:	CHRISTIE, SUSAN
Title:	Paint a Lady
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 002CD

Domestic US version (previously issued by Finders Keepers in the UK). Slipcase packaging, with a pull-quote from Wendyt Flower! "Susan Christie was a Philly-based sophomore folk singer who had one novelty hit for a major label and never quite recovered...and afterwards, her psychedelic take on country standards and hand crafted tales of inner-city solitude that was backed by a break heavy folk-funk rhythm section was never accepted as a commercial viability by record company big-wigs: they obviously couldn't quite muster their 'Nostradamus' sensibilities to foresee what future hip-hop producers and DJs would be feeding into digital music-machines 30 years down the line! Luckily three-fifths of a handful (literally three!) privately pressed vanity copies were manufactured in early 1970, one of which became the source material for this B-Music release, nesting in the Finders Keepers' ever-expanding library of obscure, obtuse, obsolete and obsessive vintage music from the '60s and '70s. The uber-legend John Hill (who penned the mind-blowing acid rock floor-filler 'Love Love Love Love Love' for Wool) produced this release: which features 8 tracks including a twelve minute drugsploitation epic called 'Yesterday - Where's My Mind,' featuring the enigmatic Susan flipping vocal styles between Janis Joplin and Margo Guryan (who was in fact a close friend of Susan's at the time of recording......)"

Artist:	OZKENT, MUSTAFA
Title:	Genclik Ile Elele
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 003CD

2006 release. "After what seems like a decade of cross-continental detective work and blind alley buffoonery, Finders Keepers finally have the auspicious privilege to introduce the incredible music of Anadolu pop's very own Dr. Frankenstein -- Maestro Mustafa Ozkent. Regarded amongst hardened collectors of Anatolian rock as THE DADDY of all Turkish rarities, this record simply has to be heard to be believed and even then it's still literally unbelievable. Is this record for real? Either these guys had time-machines or DJ Kool Herc had secret Eastern connections. If a box of original copies of this seldom-sighted album had made its way to the South Bronx in the late seventies then Mustafa Ozkent would be sharing throne space with other ultimate breaks and beats such as Michael Viners 'Incredible Bongo Band', Funky Drummer and Johnny The Fox bringing modern record collectors new found Turkish obsession forward by some 20 years."

Artist:	SELDA
Title:	Selda
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 004CD

2006 release. "The music you are about to hear defies categorization. But for all intents and multi-purposes, this record is a folk album. Embodying all the aesthetic watermarks of a private press country LP, Selda's debut long player from 1976 has masqueraded as lamb dressed as mutton, throwing many a discerning wolf from the gourmet scent. Behold! Space age, Anatolian, electronic, progressive-protest, psych-folk-funk-rock from the Middle East. All of the above ingredients are presented immaculately with up-most authenticity and conviction to create a delectable hybrid concoction which has never been replicated or equalled in the three mutant decades since its recording."

Artist:	FISER, LUBOS
Title:	Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 005CD

2007 release. "The delicately haunting and sacred score to Jaromil Jires' essential Eastern European hallucinogenic-baroque-witch-flick Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders. It has taken Andy Votel almost twelve years to finally get his grubby vinyl-magnetic mits on the original studio recordings of this previously unreleased score. A futile decade of Eastern European phone calls, continental crate digging and eventually wicked web scouring confirmed that like most Czechoslovakian film scores Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders never benefited from a commercial vinyl release and was condemned to a life imprisoned in the vaults of the original film production company sheltered from political duress and controversy for ever more -- until now."

Artist:	ZALATNAY, SAROLTA
Title:	Sarolta Zalatnay
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 006CD

2007 release. Domestic US version (issued by Finders Keepers as FKR 017CD). "If you were to tear a hundred pages from Pamela Des Barre's I'm With The Band, a fistful of anecdotes from The Abba Story, and the most titillating tales from Marianne Faithfull's biography and staple them all together you may well find a mutant monograph which is brave enough to hold a flickering candle to the story of Sarolta Zalatnay. The protective packaging of this, first ever, compendium of Zalatnay's crown jewels would not provide anything close to the adequate ink space for a worthy account of her life in the Hungarian public eye (which has previously and periodically been documented in a series of autobiographies which are unlikely to ever benefit an English language translation). After ten successful albums, drawing together a veritable who's-who of Hungarian progressive and psychedelic rock and utilizing some of the toughest dancefloor friendly metronomic drum breaks and a hard funk-rock sound years ahead of their Western European counterparts, the decline of Communism in Hungary paved the way for the widespread availability of Western music, literature and cinema -- English and American music predictably infiltrated Hungarian culture overnight and the young record buying public began to turn their backs on home grown music and many faithful Eastern European artists were demoted to mum and dad's record shelf like musical photo albums. Don't worry though -- Gal Costa is a huge name in Portugal but not many Portuguese people have heard 'Tuareg.' The youth of Hungary certainly know who Zalatnay is... but how many of them have heard that break at the start of 'Hadd Mondjam El?' All of Zalatnay's LPs have remained unknown outside of her native country. On a global scale, Zalatnay's releases sit alongside Did You Give The World Some Love Today Baby by Sweden's Doris Svensson, Marta Kubiov�'s Songy A Balady from Czechoslovakia, as well as early LPs by Greece's Elpida, Poland's Maryla Radowics and a host of French recordings from France Gall and the likes of Lulu and Pet Clarke in the UK. 'Beware, Sarolta Zalatnay is addictive!' And lucky for us, on her travels through the woods she left us a lot of shiny white pebbles which have spearheaded a Sarolta Zalatnay revival amongst English and American DJs almost 30 years later."

Artist:	VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS
Title:	Voice Of The Seven Woods
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 007CD

2007 release. "An unnamed elderly guitar repairman at a reputable music shop in South Lancashire is usually a mild-mannered character, but thanks to Rick Tomlinson this nimble-fingered technician is slowly coming to his wit's end. The fact that Rick is actually his best customer is of little consolation, and the recurring cautionary 'Don't do it again!' is falling on deaf ears, which are maybe the result of listening to too much loud music. The repeated damage inflicted on Rick's acoustic guitar by irresponsible baggage attendants at various international airports is not the problem. The fact that this reluctant leading light of the fickle 'nu-folk' movement has literally smashed his way out of a tight pigeonhole using his trusty wooden axe as a battering ram is evident by the blood-stained frets. But this is only part of the old man's concern. It's actually Rick's latest requests to make this handcrafted German guitar sound like a mutant instrument from the Middle East that are really eating him alive. The exact problem that this man has spent his life trying to eradicate is now at the top of his leading client's menu, leaving this supreme craftsman's head in his skilled hands. Rick actually wants his strings to rattle and buzz. And if his well-traveled mahogany companion isn't willing to brave any more abuse, then imminent live shows (sharing double bills with mutually respected luminaries Bert Jansch and Davy Graham) might be the last acoustic guitar performances he will make."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Bearded Ladies
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 008CD

2007 release. "Effervescent songbird Jane Weaver has joined forces with Finders Keepers to produce a B-Music certified canon of femme-folk, laden with finger-picked meandering melodies, ethereal harmonies and wistful psychedelic leanings. This bespoke, globe-trotting, decade-spanning collection traces a line between the acid-soaked protest rumblings of yesteryear and the forward looking/backward facing revivalists of today, as luminaries such as Wendy & Bonnie, Bonnie Dobson, Heather Jones and Susan Christie rub shoulders with the current cream of female songsmithery including Emma Tricca, Magphai, and Cate Le Bon." Other artists: Speck Mountain, Lispector, Turid, Lights, Brigitte Fontaine, Heaven And Earth and Misty Dixon.

Artist:	WEAVER, JANE
Title:	Cherlokalate
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 009CD

2007 release. "Effervescent songbird Jane Weaver once again takes flight with this spellbinding collection of heartrending recordings.... immersed in the sounds of Linda Perhacs, Karen Dalton, Josephine Foster, These Trails and The Pink Fairies. Jane Weaver is a rare creature in the vanity-stricken world of female singers, and perhaps with a more generous roll of the dice we might all have heard of her. Serving her apprenticeship in the mid-nineties girl-guitar-pop outfit Kill Laura, Jane would go on to front Twisted Nerve's Misty Dixon and release her critically acclaimed solo mini-album, Like An Aspen Leaf, as well as recording a slew of singles with the help of Doves and an album for Mancunian music maverick Rob Gretton's Manchester Records which went unreleased following his death until Jane dusted down the tapes and released it through her very own Bird imprint. Cherlokalate is the highly anticipated follow up to 2006's critically acclaimed debut album proper, Seven Day Smile. Stripped back and laid bare, Jane's songwriting has moved from strength to strength and her dulcet tones have lost none of their potency. Jane's quiet riot continues unabashed as word spreads of her unassuming but bewitching talent." "Her voice is a thing of ethereal, folk sweetness." -- Mojo

Artist:	ERSEN
Title:	Ersen
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 010CD

2008 release. Domestic US version (issued by Finders Keepers as FKR 016CD). "If any singular exponent of the powerful Turkish Anadolu Pop scene could be described as eclectic it would have to be Ersen. His chameleon image in Turkey has teetered on the edge of versatile and schizophrenic over his 40-year sporadic career and his versatile talents as a vocalist have served as a refreshing alternative to his contemporaries in one of the most progressive musical micro-cultures in the history of rock music. Catapulted into prominence by the first ferocious wave of the Anadolu Pop scene alongside the true cognoscenti of the fledgling phenomenon, Ersen would go-on to record a smash hit single and a string of stylistically disparate records which entertained, inspired, confused, rejuvenated and offend his divided audience in equal parts. By today's standards Ersen's erratic creative tendencies makes him one of the strongest Turkish rock contenders to transcend changing musical trends and geographic territories. As a singer he has one of the most unique softly spoken vocal deliveries on the Anatolian Rock scene and as a composer his use of long heavy rhythmical passages punctuated by his signature 'panting' vocalizations and throbbing basslines are unmistakable. To fans of early Eastern psychedelic music it will make sense that, although at times in his career Dinleten may have been regarded as an outsider, many attributes of his unique sound are accountable to his open armed acceptance by the originators of the Anadolu Pop scene - primarily, and namely Mogollar and 3 Hurel."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Well Hung
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 011CD

Subtitled: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary - Volume 1. Domestic US version (issued by Finders Keepers in the UK in 2008). "B-Music break yet more ground with 22 stomping selections from the vaults of Eastern Europe's best kept secret, Hungaraton/Qualiton Records. This first ever compendium piles heavy psych, jazz, glam and funk onto a heaped spoonful dripping with the cream of the '60s/'70s Hungarian rock scene -- Omega, Metro, Locomotiv GT, Skorpio as well as B-Music's very own jet-set fit-bit Sarolta Zalatnay. The unique ways in which Hungarian rockers interpreted such sporadic and disparate influences and unknowingly mirrored embryonic developments in Western rock from behind a political blindfold is truly unique. The national pride of Hungary's pre-war musical heritage ensured that the state-owned label Supraphon's in-house studio was designed to immaculate classical standards with acoustic specifications that would put its surrounding Eastern European labels to shame. The quality of phonograph records, from a part of the world that was usually notorious for low quality pressings and repeatedly recycled vinyl, would surpass the European standards ensuring that the hand crafted sound of Hungary's futuristic pop music was light years ahead of its time and would stand the test of time for many (delayed) years to come. The introduction of electronic instruments penetrated Hungary like a double-edged sword and polarized progressive pop aficionados over night. Where the introduction of Czechoslovakian electric guitars unified Eastern Europe's rock 'n' roll fantasists and spawned the rock in opposition movement in the mid '60s the spurious arrival of synthesizers ten years later spawned a host of new streams of hybrid rock which embraced funk, soul and disco. The restrictions of communism coupled with the silver-spooned Westerners musical xenophobia, however, as good as guaranteed that no matter how close Hungarians got to the authentic rock 'n roll sound their music would still never safely make the journey over the language barrier. In recent years, as much as 15 years since the collapse of the iron curtain, the interjection of many forms of latter day communist era art into popular western culture has become apparent and increasingly well documented. Hopefully at some stage discerning palettes will develop a taste for Hungarian rock music in the same way that we have come to accept, champion and be inspired by Polish poster art and Czech cinema." Includes 24-page booklet.

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Sound Of Wonder!
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 012CD

"The first wave of plugged-in pop at the Pakistani picture house. Rare Electronic Pop from the Lollywood vaults (1973-1980). 15 untraveled currants of Space-Age Cinematic Surf and Urdu Funk. Commonly, ignorantly but understandably lumped in with its wealthy not-too-distant cousin, Bollywood, Lollywood was inspired by, but often overshadowed by its posh and well-traveled relative. Following the simplistic Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood name game (that would in later years spawn Nollywood in Nigeria), Lollywood's Lahore based film industry was a profitable and vibrant one that found great success in the modest boundaries of its own country but was seldom savoured outside Pakistan. However, the hugely important musical business spawned a bi-product that was viewed as a potential earner for international entertainment industry, EMI, which allowed talented musicians to create ambitious music with world class mediums at there disposal, which throughout the 60s and 70s ranged from fuzz-guitars, space-echo machines and American and European synthesizers, but, due to the composers indigenous roots, rarely a drum-kit. Here you'll find fuzzy, scuzzy, twang-happy, spaced-out and funked up urdu-grooves complete with harmonium melodies and driven by some of the most random factor, freakish, finger-numbing, percussion that the South East Asian mainstream has ever had to offer. Above all, Lollywood soundtracks sound RAW! Re-imagine some of the most action packed Bollywood productions (which Lollywooders actively did) then fire the make-up department, take away the special effects budget and then improvise. The lack of gloss on a dusty Pakistani mini-LP makes for truly experimental Eastern Pop music. So, it's time to meet the culprits. The names on the back of the records that'll keep you gambling on Ghazals and taking punts on Pakistani pulp-balladry. As an introduction, in place of R.D. Burman and Asha Bhole, we have Mr. M. Ashraf and his long-term female collaborator, Nahid Akhtar. This duo would provide Pakistan with it's Gainsbourg / Birkin or it's Morricone / Dell'Orso for over 20 years, recording squillions of cut-and-paste sonic collages and moog-fuelled desperate love / hate / chase / chill / kill / songs mixing onomatopoeic Urdu lyrics with unexpected bursts of user friendly English language (which often elongates the running time passed the 5 minute mark) and throwing in the odd motif from a Barry White or Donna Summer hit. We also have legends like Noor Jehan, a national treasure and household name in Pakistan whose discography of film songs have deprived the vaults of EMI Pakistan of floor space for half a century."

Artist:	SAMANDTHEPLANTS
Title:	The Eft
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 013CD

"Partially separating the frost bitten fells that make up Lancashire's lucid landscape are small clusters of naked black trees and hedgerow that provide shelter for a host of disgruntled inhabitants hibernating from typically cruel British Winters. In a wood not dissimilar to this you'll find a welcome co-inhabitant who spends his time making fractured folk songs with limited electricity and a wide range of mutant, mechanical music machines ranging from zygotic zithers to 10 second tape loops, lutes and flutes. Imagine Delia Derbyshire in deepest Lancashire recording a Nepalese Incredible String Band with members of Os Mutantes and Faust keeping the generator warm and the kitchen operating in audible proximity. Sam McLoughlin's viscously self-sufficient, fair-weather commune band make the type of acid soaked folk and handicraft punk-rock that unified Gong and Soft Machine fans before he was born. Hot on the heels of B-Music's critically acclaimed Voice Of The Seven Woods, Samandtheplants is the latest groundbreaking Twisted Nerve act to reach the US. The CD features exclusive hidden bonus tracks otherwise unavailable away from their original vinyl releases."

Artist:	VOTEL, ANDY
Title:	Twisted Nerve 10th Anniversary Mix
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 014CD

Domestic US version (issued by Finders Keepers in the UK in 2008). "A 40 track masala of T.N. D.I.Y classics, b-sides, rarities and remixes celebrating a decade of teenage garage jams Mancunian psychsploitation, arkhestral communism and workshop pop Twisted Nerve Mixed features Voice Of The Seven Woods, Samandtheplants the first ever release by Badly Drawn Boy rare remixes From Cherrystones and Homelife and psyched-out side projects from Jane Weaver (Misty Dixon), Clearspot (Duophonic), Graham Massey (808 State) and CD debuts of vinyl only cuts from label stalwarts Sirconical, Dakota Oak and many more lubricated in custom-built sound effects and dialogue - Twisted Nerve's roster has never been so digestible! Accidentally conceived in 1998 when cut and paste graphic artist and obscure vinyl obsessive Andy Votel teamed up with screenprinter cum second-class songsmith Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) and converted their own 4 track compact cassettes into cut-price vinyl 45s. Twisted Nerve is now ten years old. Consistently jarring with the status quo our thoroughly unreliable and schizophrenic release schedules fits like a fingerless glove on an octopus. Embracing the true nature of the independent record label with little regard to the impractical standards of the major music industry Twisted Nerve has conspired to bring you the closest thing to a community run industry with our privately pressed and handmade products."

Artist:	VAMPIRES OF DARTMOORE, THE
Title:	Dracula's Music Cabinet
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 015CD

"You couldn't script it. You are nineteen minutes and twenty-two seconds in to your peak-season cruise around the Kraut-schlock peripheries. To say the trip has been an eventful one would be an understatement -- you don't know what to expect next and your 12" x 12" Germanic tour guide has proved quite unreliable thus far. As your diamond tipped vessel maneuvers through the grooves of your 9th horrific attraction (entitled 'The Soaked Body') the soundtrack awkwardly becomes background music and you are overcome with the sound of gushing water. 'Help!' you think sarcastically, the music, or is that muzak, is drowning! This is the movie soundtrack to a film that never existed. This is the movie soundtrack by the band that was never requested. These were the sound library musicians who had to invent their own clients and imaginary cast, crew and plot to get their music heard, by a niche audience, before floating deep into the depths of the rare record reservoir gasping for breath. To take a cinematic cue the record in question is the euro-trash-pop equivalent of Jean Renoirs' tragic / triumphant Boudu character who as a homeless, confused and desolate down-and-out plunged to the depths to be unwillingly rescued, resuscitated then after gradually winning the hearts of an entire family becomes respected and revered as royalty. Over 20 years after the mad scientists, Dr. Horst and Ackermann, first breathed life into this short-lived beast, brave and intrepid vinyl explorers have sporadically returned to the doors of Dracula's Music Cabinet to resurrect the sonic spooks and mutated melodies to share with nerds, mods, rockers, hip-hoppers, psych-nuts and Kraut-siders alike. The lifeless corpses of The Vampires Of Dartmoore that lay six feet beneath the belly of the 'Eins Deutschmark' bins has since crept through the record collections of the aforementioned social circles devouring continental currencies and demanding random ransoms of 200 Euros plus sweat, tears (of laughter) and a lot of blood."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Science Fiction Dance Party
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 016CD

"Finders Keepers is proud to present the mythical follow up to Heribert Thusek and Horst Ackermann's horror cash-in album Dracula's Music Cabinet. Back in 1968 a pair of Germanic behind-the-scenes sound librarians called Horst Ackermann and Heribert Thusek left a tiny, but indelible, pinprick on the history of German pop in the misshaped form of a sexy horror cash-in concept album called Dracula's Music Cabinet. Shelved at a micro-cosmic axis where Krautrock meets lesbian vampire horrortica and easy listening meets psychedelia the delayed reaction of this mutant concoction eventually exploded in the mid 1990s in the hands of a generation of 'record diggers' sending currency-crushing tremors through the wallets of mods, rockers, hip-hoppers, psych-nuts and kraut-kompletists around the plastic pillaging planet. The vinyl junkies had resurrected a monster, but, like addicts do, they ravenously sucked it dry and moved on looking for the next fix to feed their habit. Luckily for some, Ackermann and Thusek were also creatures of habit. And it wouldn't take a genius to figure out that they were holding the next dose, but by the turn of the millennium the mad scientists had been given a 35-year head start on the pop-archeologists and their mythical sequel was literally light-years ahead of their previous draconian installment. Encouragingly the unclosed cabinet left a shiny white clue in the form of its closing track 'Frankenstein Meets Alpha 7.' Perhaps space was the place. Always read the label. The Ackermann and Thusek duo were far from dynamic. They were undercover agents hiding behind user-friendly mock-rock monikers and, like most BMusicians, the only way to sniff them out would be to read the small print. But when an unidentified record on an unknown label with a title like Science Fiction Dance Party crops up in the 'Eins Deutschmark' crates it's not exactly rocket science -- although the track titles might suggest otherwise. 'The End Of A Robot,' 'Monster On Saturn 1,' 'Galactic Adventures Of The Outer Space Fleet ,' 'The Whistling Astronauts,' 'Death Rays Out Of The Universe.' The telltale signs are all there and if that vintage psycoplasmodic coloured vinyl doesn't clench the deal then what will. When rumours about a space-age follow-up to Dracula's Music Cabinet hit the stra�e Deutsche-o-phile diggers fingers started twitching nervously."

Artist:	GASLAMP KILLER, THE
Title:	All Killer
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 017CD

Finders Keepers Records 1-20 Mixed By The Gaslamp Killer. "Late last year, in the Finders Keepers Manchester vaults we celebrated our 20th conquest. It was a dignified affair with a guest list consisting of mods, rockers, proggers, hip-hoppers, teenage vampires, Welsh dragons, fly killers, escaped convicts, Turkish protesters, studio chimpanzees, and Judo experts. But when the party ended, and the guests climbed back into the record sleeves, your humble Angleterrian subjects (Votel, Thomas and Shipton) set straight back to work, underground, digging away to find the next 20 nuggets in a deep grained ongoing quest. And we haven't stopped digging - deeper and deeper without looking up until we've realised that we're stuck in a 40 year old chasm devoid of contemporary pop culture making routine DJ trips into the wilderness, seldom distracted by rare shards of daylight. One such shard of light that regularly bounces around the B-Music mine shaft is beamed all the way from Los Angeles (via a global DJ schedule) and we call him The Gaslamp Killer - while the FK bloodhound digs backwards, GLK sails forwards. Like many of us he was raised by a family of Japanese turntables, loops and edits with the desire to take/break and remake without prejudice or regular food and water - but as part of a culture that's frequently sinking under its own lethargic weight The GLK is pushing the boat out and operating on full steam with a strong paddle and an open ear. With decades of music on his mind and youth on his side The Gaslamp Killer's endless supply of elbow grease puts him in good company. Flying Louts, Cherrystones, Prefuse 73, Cut Chemist, Andy Votel, The Heliocentrics, DJ Nobody are all fellow crew members and collaborators and his DJ mixes and sonic gifts for Mary Anne Hobbs, Hit + Run, Obey, Stussy & Dublab.com prove why labels like Stones Throw and Warp are salivating over drops of this man's blood. Finders Keepers didn't need to send GLK a bumper package of our entire discography, he'd already bought it and made continuous cross-continental phone calls to the UK to let us know how fresh he thought they sounded. We think that even though most FK records are almost 40 years old they sound more forward thinking than most of the music that'll be made next year and in the context of Will's new All Killer Finders Keepers mixtape we think you'll agree. GLK might be the youngest artist in the FK family but he's certainly not the greenest and in a world where if we do happen to converse with someone without having to consult a travelers phrase book its very unlikely that they'll be under the age of 60 then he's certainly the most gregarious sonic interpreter for the B-Music outernational modus operandi. Scrambled, sampled, angle-poised and untangled, All Killer hears GLK at his best - given envious carte blanche on our vast musical palette featuring tracks that have previously been savored and championed by the likes of Madlib, Oh-No, Artic Monkeys, Percee P, Erykah Badu, Jarvis Cocker, Koushek, Future Sound Of London and Morrissey amongst others!"

Artist:	VA
Title:	The BYG Deal
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 018CD

"This is the untold story of the bloodline of a sprawling musical legacy that unites a freakish family of disparate, influential pop-cultural orphans and the estranged surrogate parent that lost-pop forgot it ever knew. Between 1968 and 1974 the combination of B, Y and G might not have been the surefire code to financial fulfillment but the indelible contribution to experimental pop, free jazz, spiritual prog rock and total space music would continue to send positive vibrations through future generations of progressive pop. Includes rare tracks from Vangelis, Gong, Brigitte Fontaine and many others." Other artists include Alice, Francois Wertheimer, Areski, Alan Jack, Coeur Magique, Valerie Lagrange, Alpha Beta, Jacques Barsamian, Ame Son, Rock Out, Freedom, Paul Semama, Inter-Groupie Psychotherapeutic Elastic Band, Banana Moon and Joachim And Rolf Kuhn.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Pomegranates
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 019CD

"It's no accident that the phoenix is an exalted moral, mythical, and figurative symbol in Iran. Like the phoenix, Iranian culture is in constant flux and, at times, elusive, with its existential wavering and blurred panoramas. Most of contemporary Iran's artistic and creative leanings, its grapples with history and identity, are loosely and mystically conjoined and contested in memory. Iran is marked by the complex interplay of diverse constituencies, philosophies, and influences: ethnic, religious, political, geopolitical and historical. The glorification of pre-Islamic antiquity (in search of authentication) marked the socio-cultural attitude of a bygone era and is witnessing revival in the present day. The discordant reality of eastern traditions complicated by the rampant confusions of modernity has become a norm in Persian dialogue, not to mention revolution, exile, and diaspora. Like many other countries, the sixties and seventies were a time of tumult in Iran, bringing growth (via petrodollars) and freedom (under the banner of socioeconomic development) while exacerbating inequalities within the country. The music and voices that blossomed during those decades exemplify the turbulence and excitement of the age. It is worth recognizing these 'left out' and 'lost' artists individually and as a group in the global happenings of '60s/'70s psych, rock and folk, while exploring their influence and relevance to the present day. Is it possible that there is a genus of delectable sounds and fetching images that almost exclusively reside in the elbowroom of memory and nostalgic 'yesteryear' storytelling? Little consideration has been given to the correlation of these sounds and stories within the universal psychedelic phenomena: parallel to the shared stylistics of British and American players, and the radical politicking of their Turkish and Korean counterparts. This collection endeavors to re-contextualize these songs from the realm of reminiscence, nostalgia, and memory into a specific and accessible narrative to share and relate within the universal musical gamut. It is for aficionados, the curious, and collectors alike. We hope that Iranians around the world will rediscover these songs. This collection is, in some sense, dedicated to a generation in self-imposed mental exile, due to years of war and catastrophe; decades of lies and bombs; a fundamentalist theocracy of reformist shams; addiction; isolation and alienation; unemployment, and inflation. These are voices and stories that may again prove relevant to a psychologically damaged and spiritually corrupt society, a society whose discontents recall the latter years of the Shah's rule. The recordings excavated here are highly sexual musings, voluble love songs, and simple folk tunes."

Artist:	GREEN, BILLY
Title:	Stone
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 020CD

"Untraveled electronic swamp-funk from the 1974 Ozploitation biker-psych cult classic. Featuring 7 exclusive tracks not available on original LP. To many global record collectors, DJs, music producers and general retrophiles living outside of Australia Stone was primarily known for its electronic sound effects, psychedelic guitars, cosmic sound scapes and funky basslines... In the '80s and '90s, before the global DVD boom, Stone to many people was first and foremost a soundtrack... The kind of soundtrack that makes you wish you could see the film but it'll probably never happen. The LP artwork alone was beyond enigmatic with its contradicting embroider logo alongside its striking futuristic airbrushed chrome insignia (designed by comic artist Peter Ledger and realized by airbrush whizz Errol Black). The huge parade of brand new Kawasaki bikes inside the gatefold looked like something from the future compared to the classic full-dresser Harleys from the American Hells Angels movies. And when the needle drops into the groove and the freakish blend of didgeridoo and Moog (played by Johnny 'Didge' Matthews and synth expert Andy Cohan) blended with unidentified clicks belches and pops fly out the speakers it is literally impossible to put a date, never mind a story line, to this acid fuelled soundscape. The use of confusing and contradicting musical influences alongside bizarre noises is actually the secret sauce in this concoction and when the swampy psychedelic funk-rock rhythm section kicks-in, you are left with a 45 minute programme of skewed. Forward-thinking avant-pop that would stylistically fill a very lonely section in the record shop racks. There are not many records quite like Stone." Includes a 24-page booklet packed with notes and photos.

Artist:	TWINKRANES
Title:	Spektrum Theatre Snakes
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 021CD

2010 release. "A self-described 'psychedelic power trio specializing in zone-out progressive pop musik,' Twinkranes dare to be different. Spektrum Theatre Snakes, their debut album, is triple-pronged, hammer-action psychedelia driven by tribal motorik, barking mad synthesisers, loose connections, dead ends and choppy waters. If you like Silver Apples, Wooden Shjips, car chases, krautrock and mind-bending grooves, you're going to love this. Hailing from Dublin, the trio comprises Anto, aka Blonde Fox (Vocals & drums), Rooster (guitars & tape manipulation) and Ray, aka Auburn Spinner (Korg synthesizer, rhythms and soundscapes). Together, they take influence equally from dance music and the weirder wings of pop history."

Artist:	WEAVER, JANE
Title:	The Fallen By Watch Bird
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 022CD

"Taking influences from Eastern European children's cinema, Germanic kunstm�rchen, '70s television music and early murmers of '80s synth-pop The Fallen By Watch Bird is a new conceptual pop project featuring seven chapters of cosmic aquatic folklore by songwriter Jane Weaver ( Misty Dixon / Bird Records / B-Music). Combining the sonic sisterhood of seven other musical actresses drawn from the past 40 years of soft-rock and femme-folk history under the collective moniker 'Septieme Soeur' the new LP features rare appearances from Wendy & Bonnie (harmonic creators of '60s soft psych teen-pop rarity Genesis), Lisa Jen (Starry eyed Welsh language Volk singer and female voice of Gruff Rhys's Candylion), Susan Christie (1969 Philadelphian top-ten pop starlet whose lost acoustic pop recordings were eventually released by Finders Keepers in 2006) alongside traditional Bosnian singer Behar and members of Misty Dixon. Casually alluding to a floating storyline based around missing seamen, telekinesis, avian messengers, white witchkraft and death & re-birth, Jane's fifth release is her first fully realised concept album. Sharing themes explored in her acclaimed 2002 LP Like An Aspen Leaf (recorded with members of the embryonic band Elbow) The Fallen By Watch Bird also revisits collaborative production techniques explored alongside Dave Tyack in her previous synth-fuelled girl-groop band Misty Dixon, which drew comparisons to American Spring and Suicide in shining reviews across the board. The project, recorded sporadically over a 2 year hiatus was initially conceived after assembling a one-off supergroop featuring Susan Christie and Wendy Flower under the direction of Andy Votel and Sean Ohagan as part of Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown Festival in 2007. The Fallen By Watch Bird is a rare foray into the public eye for Miss Weaver, after leaving a trail of carefully placed musical crumbs marking her retreat from Manchester's municipal public-eye as one-time omnipresent ambassador of Manchester's vibrant indie scene as part of New Order's management team, recording early singles with leading Mancunian cinematic alt-rock groop Doves."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Absolute Belter
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 023CD

"Mid-med-mod-rock & Spanish psychsploitation from the 'cradle of Spanish pop'. Marking the 50th anniversary of one of Europe's longest running Independent record labels.... Featuring bizarre versions of tracks written by Curved Air, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Quincy Jones, Wayne Fontana & Yamasuki. In the realms of the music business, the overused term indie has become somewhat convoluted within the last three decades. Bandied around as a stylistic statement, an ethos or a genre in its own right, there are very few successful popular music labels that can truly claim to be independent of those major corporations that, in time, plan to dominate the entire recorded output of the global music community. Here at Finders Keepers these seldom championed self-sufficient industries have always been truly inspirational sources. Labels such as Kuckuck in Germany, BYG in France and Sain in Wales have all maintained utmost artistic integrity and broke truly experimental and successful careers without having to surrender their creative loins to the ravenous bottomless stomach of the major music industry, and for this reason the music flies freely amongst us adding new life after life to musical misfits as free music lives, breathes and procreates. By the start of the new millennium the revival of the vinyl record buying market had reached a level that turned second hand shops and auction websites into train spotters' sports arenas. The competitive nature of record digging, trading, sampling and DJing took misplaced-pop aficionados out of their comfort zones in search of black 12" and 7" medals that might outsmart their fellow collectors or tantalize the fresh ears of a well-adjusted, freak-fuelled audience. Throughout the 1990s the rise in popularity of indigenous European genres such as Krautrock and French Ye-Ye saw American, English and Japanese collectors re-invent the concept of world music pondering un-raked territories... Europe, of course, would provide the central co-ordinates to start the global trophy treasure hunt. The neatly arranged and numbered racks of laminated 7 inch sleeves that originated from Barcelona in the '60s and '70s have provided many of these vinyl vultures and portable record deck wielders with enough random and varied music to justify week long pop-pilgrimages to Spanish flea markets and thrift shops. Belter records, with their familiar yellow graphic bands and blue/silver or brown/yellow labels punctuate racks of other Spanish delights in a country whose habitual record buying market was initiated and facilitated by a self-made home grown institution. This is were you'll find hip-hop producers rubbing shoulders with mods and proggers, shying away from the sun, contemplating a supposedly-authentic paella supper and repeatedly flipping over the endless rivers of 7" circles and squares in search of another Absolute Belter. The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most recognised independent commercial music companies of post-war Europe and, with a back catalogue of magnetic tape that could circle the planet, the legacy of Barcelona's Belter repertoire has touched each continent, proudly defiant in the face of fascism, technology, revolution, capitalism, patriotism, bad fashion, good vibrations and dubious humour. Viva la musica!" Artists: Furia, Sonya, Fuerza, Rudy Ventura, Control, Los Huracanes, Brisk, Los Ros, Albert Band, Los Mismos, Los Roller, Soledad Miranda, Los Gritos, Alfonso Santisteban, Top Show, Hermanos Calatrava. Includes 20-page booklet with notes and photos.

Artist:	TRICCA, EMMA
Title:	Minor White
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 024CD

"Italian-born, London-based singer-songwriter Emma Tricca has had her life shaped by two key encounters with folk legends. While still only an apprentice songwriter just out of school she met John Renbourn when he played a solo show in Rome. After the gig, Emma got the opportunity to play John one of her own songs; his approval gave her the confidence to start writing and gigging properly and they remain firm friends. Given both her itchy feet and love of the Greenwich Village folk musicians, it was perhaps inevitable that Emma would make the pilgrimage to New York, living there and in Texas for a while before returning to the folk clubs of London. In the summer of 2006 she was spotted playing at the Green Man festival in Wales by DJ and Finders Keepers/Twisted Nerve record boss Andy Votel and his partner, the singer-songwriter Jane Weaver. The meeting led Emma to be invited by Jane and Andy to play a night they were involved in as part of Jarvis Cocker 2007 Meltdown festival. Both her performance and her contribution to the attendant compilation album were critically acclaimed by the international press, leading to a full UK and European tour and dates supporting John Renbourn. Recorded in Famous Times Studios, Minor White is the perfect summation of Emma's story so far -- a natural product of all those miles traveled and all those songs played. Indeed, the elegance and unvarnished charm of the songs here is only matched by the sense of well-traveled melancholy that reflects Emma's international upbringing. It's a truly timeless work, which means that these songs will endure as much as those that inspired Emma to pick up a guitar and start to sing in the first place."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Bird Songs
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	10"
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 026EP

"Taking self sufficient songbirds and melodic magpies under our frangible wing Bird Records aims to nurture effeminate euphony of every species, vintage or temperament. Apolitical - pro-musical. From the forlorn to the ferocious. From the predatory to the precouscious. Bird Records an independent women's Institute fuelled by artistic freedom and the simple sound of sonic sisterhood.
       Magpahi: Falsetto fairy-tale folk songs and 16th century poems from the heart of the black and white birds nest. The Bunyan on the ball of Vashti's foot from the frost bitten fells of supernatural Lancashire - Alison Cooper is inspired by sepia storybooks, stray animals and flickering visions of the industrial North.
       Ali Babki: Meet Anna, Ewa, Krystyna, Sylwia, Anna and Wanda. This six fold sisterhood of Polish pin-ups took the Sopot music festival by storm under the direction of orchestrator Juliusz Loranc. One of many indigenous flocks from Communist era Poland who failed to migrate beyond its climate.
       Jane Weaver: Taking influences from Eastern European children's cinema, Germanic kunstmarchen, 70s television music and early murmurs of 80s synth-pop.
       Soledad Miranda: Commonly recognised as Spanish Horrortica director Jess Franco's most infamous leading lady this Seville born future Vampyros Lesbos actress released two sought after and lesser spotted 7" EPs containing the only 8 songs she ever recorded.
       Emma Tricca: Italian born songbird Emma Tricca is a natural product of all those miles travelled and all those songs played. Elegan1 and unvarnished songs 1hat will endure as much as those that inspired Emma to pick up a guitar and start to sing in the first place.
       Sidan: Translated as 'Hope' this Cymraeg 45 by five peice teenage girl group rarely pops up outside its native Wales." Limited edition 1,000 copies only record store day exclusive.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Cloud Cuckooland
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 027CD

Rare prog rock from Ihre Kinder, Out Of Focus and Armageddon; proto-electronica from Sam Spence and Deuter; and rare music from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "Eckart Rahn is an untainted music lover in the purest sense. The original Kuckuck label founder came from a non-musical background in an obscure village in Germany with no money, few career prospects and little outlets for his creative energy. Sharing a common psyche with most young Germans after the Second World War, Rahn was literally starting from scratch, inventing his future with a blank canvas and taking risks with nothing to lose. The humble beginnings of the founder of one of the longest running European independents were simple - when he eventually heard music he fell in love with it and dedicated his life to it. A man in charge of his own destiny, from this point on, Eckart Rahn was only ever going to be his own boss. The ideologies of rebellion, rule breaking and risk taking, which would provide the foundation for the German rock explosion affectionately known as krautrock, were sewn into Rahn's DNA from the outset. When Eckart first heard a Blue Note recording of Sonny Rollins, Live At The Village Vanguard, he immediately spent his only money on the record with hope that he would soon be able to afford a record player to play the damn thing on. This unique approach to life would later lead Rahn through his career in the music industry taking gambles on forward thinking artists in the hope that the record buying public would eventually catch up. Christened with the German word for the cuckoo bird, the label was titled in reference to the way that Rahn would lay musical eggs under an unassuming parent company like the feathered brood parasite. Combining three key elements Rahn worked alongside two other collaborative forces to get Kuckuck off the ground. With himself taking care of A&R and contractual paperwork, he enlisted the services of American DJ and record producer Mike Sondeck who would bring American electronic composer Sam Spence to the label along with his imported Moog synthesisers (paid for by The American National Football League). Rahn would also share the company with a stylish design and advertising company from Munich called ConceptData who would supply Kuckuck's indelible graphic styling - exemplified by its cuckoo logo and typeface and their unmistakable record labels. Most of the music you will hear on this compilation is from the pre-1974 period, which is in no way intended to paint the full Kuckuck picture. This compilation intends to focus on Kuckuck's prog rock years that would be filed under the kosmiche or Krautrock banner. You might spot that some early artists that might be filed under blues rock, pop or SSW are not included here but should be explored on their own merit or as a piece of the full picture puzzle - a jigsaw that won't be complete until Mr. Rahn decides to take the key out of the cuckoo clock for good."

Artist:	CHALARD, JACKY
Title:	Je Suis Vivant, Mais J'ai Peur De Gilbert Deflez
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 028CD

"Surrealist sci-fi psych concept LP combining the leading bastions of the French No-No rock scene with the Parisian cosmic-comic-art cognoscenti." "The combination of ex-members of French rock and roll bands The Mayfair Group (Chalard) and Jelly Roll (Jacques Mercier) founded the writing team behind one of France's top progressive pop bands of the early 1970s alongside The Martin Circus, Triangle and The Variations. After an unshakable discography of killer singles, including tracks like 'Le corbeau et le renard' and 'Faust 72,' the group won the enviable job as both backing band and support group for Michel Polnareff which would later take the four piece on a tour of Japan. Dynastie Crisis released approximately two and a half LPs (the middle one was a re-dux of their underexposed debut) for the labels of Francis Dreyfuss and the French leg of Harvest Records. Like most forward thinking LPs of the era Je suis vivant, mais j'ai Peur was too progressive for its 1974 release, and for an LP designed to sound like it was made 25 years in the future, it was quite clearly ahead of its time by design. Perhaps a reissue in 1999 might have bought the LP up to date but given an extra decade to hibernate, a lot like the story's leading protagonist, maybe the characters of Je suis vivant, mais j'ai peur can finally be unleashed on planet Earth to inspect how our musical tastes have developed. I wonder how he will react to the apocalypse?"

Artist:	VA
Title:	Thai? Dai!
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 029CD

The Heavier Side Of The Luk Thung Underground. "It's possibly a misnomer to label music recorded outside of the USA or Europe with terms such as 'psyche' or 'surf' as it is often just a stylistic innovation based on exposure to foreign records via the radio or music stores. It doesn't necessarily chime in with any of the social shifts or changes that accompanied the music's development in the West. Even in America, the concept of teen culture was relatively new during the height of these genres popularity. People who could afford to take advantage of these new freedoms often had the financial cushioning to do so. This factor was amplified in South East Asia, and the music shouldn't be considered nationally representative - it's a more scaled down phenomenon, relevant to a small cross-section of society. By the same token, this wasn't just bland copycat music to widen a band's audience, or to entertain expat patrons in bars or clubs. This was a sincere desire to experiment and repackage local sounds without necessarily needing to make a statement. The musical information was processed and partially recast amidst a blend of local music and arrangements, transposed onto drums, electric bass, guitar and keyboards. Although in the mid-70s there was a wider protest movement in Thailand that found it's musical outlet in the 'songs for life' of Caravan and Carabao, the music collected here was not part of the same aesthetic, although it's possible there was some musical overspill. The styles featured on this compilation fall somewhere between Luk Thung ('song of the countryside') and Luk Krung ('song of the city'). Bangkok was a particular melting pot for the evolution of these two genres, the former alluding to musical themes and lyrics aimed at the wider national population, the latter looking westwards with a more urban 'sophisticated' audience in mind. The tracks here were experimentations or dice rolling by both little known groups, as well as established figures like Plearn Promdan. Some tracks might represent a specific artist's only foray into this musical area. Even within Thailand the majority of these tunes remain unissued, so it's with great pleasure that we present this glimpse of the strange underbelly of Thai Luk Thung in all its unique, original and outlandish glory - a small snapshot of an otherwise forgotten era." Compiled by Chris Menist & Andy Votel with Maft Sai (of the ZudRangMa label).

Artist:	MICHAJLOV, ANGELO
Title:	Saxana - The Girl On A Broomstick
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 030CD

"The previously unreleased spooked-out psychedelic jazz score to '70s Czech's 'other' favourite teenage witch flick. Directed by Vacalav Vorlicek (3 Nuts For Cinderella/Who Killed Jessie?) from the studios that brought you Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Daisies and The Cremator. Finders Keepers presents the entire studio sessions, plus psychedelic effects by Angelo Michajlov (Marta Kubisova's arranger) performed by the Karel Vlach Orchestra. 'Imagine Gary Bartz and Nucleus meeting Swedish singer Doris at a Czech Pop Festival with the cast of H.R. Pufnstuff as the moody stage security.' Embodying the same dance floor sensibilities as tracks like Kubisov�'s own 'Tak Dej Se K Ruman' or a version of 'Beatmaker' by Sweden's Doris Svensson, the film's title track, played by the right DJ, could even transcend European retro dance floors. However, by 21st Century record nerd standards it might be an idea to use the 'Doris' gauge to judge the psychedelic jazz score to Czechoslovakia's favourite family witch flick. Don't get me wrong, these aren't pop songs, we're talking about instrumental and incidental music here (of the spooky variety) only to be found in European cinemas, and as soon as Karel Vlach puts down the brass and pulls out the electric bass and mid-tempo score sheets then Angelo Mikhailov's demands for backwards percussion samples and eerie manmade Hex F.X. begin to add extra colour to our screens and stereos. Take the music out of its visual context and imagine a banned Italian Giallo film with a laid back Bruno Nicolai score. We even get the sitars on one track." Includes a 28-page full-color booklet with photos and extensive notes.

Artist:	LISKA, ZDENEK
Title:	Mala Morska Vila
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 031CD

"The original orchestral/electronic score from Karel Kachyna's 1976 Czech film adaptation of Hans C. Anderson's The Little Mermaid, composed by Zdenek Liska (The Cremator/Fruits of Paradise) featuring Lenka Korinkova. Liska's legacy in the history of European cinema is huge in volume but relatively modest in its celebrity. Having already composed nine scores for Kachyna's films to add to his 1976 filmography of 150 completed soundtracks. Mala Morska Vila is one of the most idiosyncratic and haunting undiscovered scores in the annals of European cinematic history. Beautifully remastered from the original mastertapes with the full cooperation of the seminal Barrandov studios in Prague."

Artist:	ILAIYARAAJA
Title:	Solla Solla
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 032CD

"Ilaiyaraaja, Ilayaraja, Ilayaraaja, Isaignani, The Maestro. The undeniable prince of Kollywood cinema, India's second largest film industry, Ilaiyaraaja is more than equal to his forward thinking contemporaries in Bollywood and Lollywood in both productivity and experimentation. However, once you have exhausted all possible leads using his various names (and the numerous misspellings) you're faced with the unenviable task of sifting through a 34-year career spanning more than 900 film scores in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada in order to unearth some the heaviest dancefloor friendly electronic pop to ever emerge from Southern India. This not-so-modest collection of lesser-spotted electronic Tamil pop features many tracks previously unavailable away from their original rare as hen's teeth vinyl pressings. Includes the viral Kollywood/Bollywood klassic 'Solla Solla.'"

Artist:	ABSOLUTE FUSIOON
Title:	Absolute Fusioon
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 033CD

"Who can ignore a band with a name this blatant? But if you think is 'Fusion' in a traditional sense, think again. An epic soundtrack to an era when Spain was adjusting to a new political era, with it's own Catalan swagger." -- Guillermo S. Herren aka Prefuse 73 (Savath Y Savalas)
"From the foundations of the Catalonian rock Laieta movement. An uber-legendary exponent of Ibizas' 1970 psychedelic club scene. An essential for fans of freak funk and symphonic jazz rock with no egg-ception. Imagine a Spanish mutation somewhere between Goblin and The Stark Reality. Featuring tracks from the cosmic studio of Jose Llobell (Enterprise/Oliver's Planet). Snap it up while you can... an Absolute Belter."

Artist:	GOOGOOSH
Title:	Googoosh
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 034CD

"The East's best kept secret? Despite being a national treasure to generations of free-thinking Iranians and one of the most well-known and loved songbirds from the East, Faegheh Atashin (most famously known as Googoosh or Gougoush) is ironically also the performer of some of the rarest, heart-melting pop music in the world. Originally pressed on the diminishing vinyl format in the mid-1970s her songs and performances were banned after the Iranian revolution of 1979 resulting in her records, and millions of others, being forbidden, hidden and destroyed. Preserved in some part via the rise of global compact cassette culture in the 1980s some of Googoosh's most famous songs have become anthemic amongst international Iranian communities whilst in darker contrast dozens of 45 b-sides and commercially stunted album tracks remain as distant and nonexistent memories in the mind of the most devout fans and fastidious vinyl librarians. Finders Keepers' first Googoosh release focuses on a handful of these lesser-spotted tracks - the ones that didn't get away. Herein many will find the singer at her beguiling best with an urgency and yearning in her voice that is arguably unrivaled by so many contenders under the often disposable femme-pop umbrella. Mid-tempo pop peons with pulsating rhythm sections awash with expertly orchestrated strings (akin to that of some of the most intense Italian or French film composers) provide the backdrop for unrequited love songs revealing poetic premonitions of impeding cultural heartbreak. Other carefully selected tracks take cues from Googoosh's most unlikely influences, such as jazz, bossa and early disco, unconsciously inducing political paranoia from the era's imminent anti-pop restrictive regime. Combining inspiration from a deep-rooted history of Persian poetic verse and indelible Arabic songcraft these lost tracks, from the artist known amongst Farsi speaking fans throughout the world as 'Iran's Daughter,' have most certainly, finally earned a place in the hearts of 'outernational' music lovers like yourself."

Artist:	GERE, DON
Title:	Werewolves On Wheels
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 035CD

"B-movie junkies, gather round and prepare yourselves for what could only be described as a cinematic speedball. Take a combined hit of two of the most potent strains of toxic cinema, dress it up in ritualistic robes and make it dance to the beat of a stoned, motoric, country commune soundtrack. Like an exploito double bill where both films merge into a single feature, this directorial debut by an ex-Roger Corman protege and future Russ Meyer art director (another heady cocktail) is the product of one writing duo's fleeting time in the driving seat as the moviedrome marathon approached its dwindling finish line. Werewolves on Wheels emerged in 1971 in a climate where the B-movie genre of the previous two decades began to make way for the early glimpses of imported slasher films and video nasties. Entirely out of popular context in 1971, the soundtrack music of Don Gere would perhaps reveal him as the most versatile actor involved in the whole production. Until this point, Don Gere had been a pop folk songwriter and a country music devotee, but while riding with the werewolves, Don Gere became a disjointed psych rock stoner making ritualistic commune country with more coincidentally in common with Germany's emerging Krautrock scene or the more localized stoner psych of Skip Spence (whose radically ahead of its time LP OAR was recognized by Columbia Records as their lowest selling record in the company's history). Imagine guitarist Sandy Bull jamming with Munich's Amon Duul 1 or some Swedish prog outfits like Trad, Gras och Stenar or a sedated Kebnekaise. In comparison to the Curb/Allan scores, for films like Wild Angels, Devil's Angels, Thunder Alley, and Born Losers (often released on Curb's own Sidewalk or Tower records), the new music made by Don Gere, only three years down the line, sounds like it's from an entirely different generation."

Artist:	VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE
Title:	Electro Rapide
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 036CD

Subtitled: Experimental Pop Instrumentals From Jean-Claude Vannier's Vintage Vaults. "Electro Rapide is a collection of rare and unreleased archive material from the studio vaults of legendary French orchestral pop composer Jean-Claude Vannier. Taken from the period before and during his revered creative period with Serge Gainsbourg, these tracks reveal rare glimpses of Vannier's self initiated instrumental projects which were crowbarred between an air-tight studio diary as one of Frances most in-demand arrangers and composers of the post Mai 68 generation. Electro Rapide combines a mixture of JCVs familiar trade-mark motifs and stylings from his coveted work for idiosyncratic French pop vocalists (such as Briggitte Fontaine, Claude Nougaro, Leonie and Anna St Clair) with the seldom heard experimental music for ballets, fashion shows as well as his infamous film music (such as the soundtracks for Cannabis and La Horse). Electro Rapide reveals a young Vannier in his embryonic stages before the birth of a true individual orch, pop funk legend, comprising some exclusive and previously unheard tracks alongside music culled from rare library music LPs, kids' records, radio themes and his earliest soundtrack work. This archive is the closest Jean-Claude Vannier fans will get to a lost instrumental LP outside of his previous Finders Keepers Insolitudes release and his conceptual Georges Brassens tribute LP and features his favored long-running session band featuring Arpardys & Brutus Drums percussionist Alain Pierre D'ahan and magma guitarist Claude Engel in their earliest assemblage. Utilizing a vibrant palette of sonic ingenuity JCV combines pulpit percussion, scholastic instruments and a host of oblique international sounds to create a unique breed of French instro pop that went on to influence future generations of international progressive and cinematic music."

Artist:	VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE
Title:	Roses Rouge Sang
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 037CD

"Exactly 40 years since the release of Histoire De Melody Nelson (his seminal and essential Serge Gainsbourg collaboration) Jean-Claude Vannier, France's most lorded arranger and composer of orchestral funk-rock and pop returns to the same artistic territory that has since come to represent his most iconic period and continually inspire five inclusive generations of experimental rock luminaries. The signature sound of JCV, complete with his brooding orchestral sweeps, pensive drum-drops, loudly plucked bass and biting clavinet has earned him a firm fixture in the top-ten album lists of virtually everyone with a passing interest in latter-day European rock and conceptual music. But don't call it a comeback. Unlike the many re-dux events or commercial updates of passed classics that we have recently come to expect, the latest LP by Jean Claude Vannier simply extends the authentic vintage winning-formula which he truly owns with utmost attention to every last detail. As pop music and technology changes with time some things are best left in their purest form which is why 40 years later JCV has returned to the same studio hands, with the same musicians and the same crystal clear vision that simply can't be equaled, despite the countless attempts. This all new LP comprises a personnel of the legendary European session players that appeared on classic Vannier & Gainsbourg scores such as Cannabis, La Horse, Slogan and Les Chemins de Katmandu as well as Melody Nelson itself, and his own bizarre and mythical follow-up LP, the truly bizarre 1973 avant-garde ballet L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches (which was finally rescued from obscurity in 2005 by Finders Keepers as the labels debut release). The rhythm section line-up for the album alone reads like a European record collectors wet dream."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Bollywood Bloodbath
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 039CD

"After what seems like a thousand years of blood, sweat, tears, and a lot more blood, your zombified disc disciples at Finders Kreepers unveil one of their most exquisite, exhumed, ectoplasmic, and existentially essential collections yet. This musical mausoleum of malformed freak funk and dreadful discoth�que pop has been resurrected from the maligned cinematic subculture of Bombay's bloodthirsty horror film industry and witnesses the cognoscenti of the Bollywood pop scene at their most creative, destructive and experimentally effective. Bollywood Bloodbath features India's finest composers, such as Bappi Lahiri, R.D Burman, Sonik Omi, Sapan Jogmohan and Laxmikant Pyarelal making the kind of radical risk-rock that would under normal circumstances have studio security escorting these overworked maestros off set for a well-earned break or a relaxing exorcism. Take all the most oblique, indigenous characteristics of your favorite Bollywood musicals then condense them into a bubbling serum and watch the Jekyll and Hyde transformation commence as these A-list composers create bloodcurdling BMusic for the films they never thought the outernationals would see or hear. Licensed exclusively from the independent Indian film music companies (revealing incidental tracks that they didn't even know they owned) Bollywood Bloodbath is the result of avid stomach turning research via VHS tapes, chewed-up cassettes, and LPs, 12''s and 45s remastered from some of the only existing master tapes."

Artist:	CIANI, SUZANNE
Title:	Lixiviation
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 040CD

Amazing comp of classically trained/avant-minded commercial composer Suzanne Ciani, the "American Delia Derbyshire Of The Atari Generation." Ciani stands alongside the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Daphne Oram, and Ursula Bogner in the continuum of female early electronic knob-twiddlers that would've never gone out on a date with you. "With a sonic portfolio that boasts commissions for the Xenon classic pinball machine, the sounds for the Meco Star Wars theme, the Atari TV commercials and the electronic sound effects in the original Stepford Wives film (amongst many others) the mutant electronic music CV of Suzanne Ciani is proof that in a 1970s commercial world of boys toys, monopolised by a male dominated media industry, a woman's touch was the essential secret ingredient to successful sonic seduction. A classically trained musician with an MA in music composition this American Italian pianist was first introduced to the synthesizer via her connections in the art world when abstract Sculptor and collaborator Harold Paris introduced Suzanne to synthesizer designer Don Buchla who created the instrument that would come to define Ciani's synthetic sound (The Buchla Synthesiser). Cutting her teeth providing self-initiated electronic music projects for art galleries, experimental film directors, pop record producers and proto-video nasties Suzanne soon located to New York where she quickly became the first point of call for electronic music services in both the underground experimental fields and the commercial advertising worlds alike. Counting names like Vangelis and Harald Bode amongst her close friends Suzanne and her Ciani Musica companybecame the testing ground for virtually any type of new developments in electronic and computerized music amassing an expansive vault of commercially unexposed electronic experiments which have remained untouched for over 30 years... until now."

Artist:	CHITHRA, K.S.
Title:	K.S Chithra
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 041CD

"The electrification of K.S Chithra and Kollywood pop! Known by adoring fans and devotees, throughout South India, as Chinna Kuyil (Little Nightingale) on account of her expansive vocal range and crystaline sweet voice, the uplifting and surprising sound of K.S. Chithra is, for many, best exemplified by the early plugged-in-pop she made in the 1980s with the man/machine who first introduced her to the Tamil film industry, Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. There are few records you will hear this year that combine the sounds of a child's choir, a DX7 bass line, three types of drum machine, amariachi trumpet cry, a resampled forty-piece orchestra and an electronic bass line that takes the moog taurus by the horns and rides into the Indian summer. There is probably less chance of hearing a vocal performance so confusingly dazzling that it instantly detracts from the previously aforementioned wish list combination of bizarre instruments but for those intrepid enough to dig a little deeper and take a detour due East, pick-axing right where Lollywood meets Bollywood - then prepare to be rewarded with a double, triple and quadruple whammy! This compilation focuses on a small and select handful of Chithra and Ilaiyaraaja's developing collaborations from the formative years of their relationship between - 1986 and 1991- a vibrant time where analog recording techniques and digital technology first overlapped and Chithra, as a developing vocalist, adapted to the the sounds and arrangements of a classic maverick composer pushing the boundaries.... Rare Tamil recordings -- never previously released on CD and considerably rare on their original vinyl pressings."

Artist:	ROLLIN, JEAN
Title:	The B-Music Of Jean Rollin
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 042CD

Performed by various artists, 1968-1979. "Rising out of the smoky Parisian Mai 68 shrapnel and claiming his stake as the first French vampire movie director, the inimitable father of European Horrortica, Jean Rollin (1938-2010) has smudged the painted face of surrealist cinema for over five decades. Dragging his roots from beneath the Letterist/Situationist movements, avant-garde theatre, Belgian fine art groups and entwining them around the minds of sexual revolutionaries, the European comic book cognoscenti, the Parisian free jazz and rock scene, Rollin stopped at nothing to bring his macabre phantasies of zygotic vampirism and backward blood cults to Gallic cinemateques and beyond. Celebrating the immortal legacy of the late director Finders Keepers Records have compiled a detailed and comprehensive music cabinet of some of the finest musical moments from his initial directorial decade (1968-1979) that provided a much needed platform for the freak rock and free jazz that mirrored the distorted erotic visions in his own mind's eye. Imagine Gong-Gone-Wrong meeting the Art Ensembles Of Ch�teauroux... Fantasy pop groups mutate and thrive within. Featuring early recordings from mod rockers Unity, free jazz legends Barney Wilen, Fran�ois Tusque and Jean-Fran�ois Jenny-Clark and musical co-conspirators to Walerian Borowczyk and Fernando Arrabal, this collection unites a wide range of previously unreleased material with some of Finders Keepers' most collectable Rollinade vinyl moments for the first collection of this kind featuring music over forty years old."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Strange Passion
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 044CD

Explorations In Irish Post Punk DIY And Electronic Music 1980-83. "Focusing on a three year period from 1980 to 1983, Strange Passion is a compilation of rare, unheralded and unreleased Irish music that emerged after the first wave of punk and new wave bands. A time when the raw primitive sounds of punk began to absorb new ideas and technologies and emerging acts were reaching audiences on an unprecedented scale thanks to new magazines such as Hot Press and Heat, RTE Radio 2 and it's Fanning Sessions, as well as new youth magazine programmes on national TV like Anything Goes. Undoubtedly U2 were the breakthrough act from this new generation of acts. However, others such as Virgin Prunes with their Dadaist inspired blend of performance art and punk offered a darker vision tapping into the latent energy of their environs which resulted in extraordinary live events and the odd incendiary TV performance. Live legends, The Threat and Chant! Chant! Chant! were gone almost as soon as they arrived but so fully formed were they already that recordings they did leave behind stand as prime examples of post punk music. Finders Keepers Records/B-Music are proud to present the first ever compendium of Irish post punk and new wave -- featuring extensive liner notes, rare photos with the full participation of the featured artists and bands."

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